supporting artists' professional development
NAVA administers grants to assist artists in their professional development. It also publicises other grants, prizes, exhibition opportunities and residencies to NAVA members. For more information about NAVA's comprehensive guide to visual arts opportunities you can purchase the new 9th Edition of our most popular publication Money For Visual Artists, click here .
RIPE: Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank
Contemporary Art Award
Winners for the 2008 RIPE: Art and Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award have been announced. Congratulations to the two recipients of this year's award, Kushana Bush and Noel Skrzpczak.
The following artists were shortlisted for the award Laith McGregor, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, and Matt Coyle.
The Windmill Trust Scholarship 2008 Presentation Event
Mic Eales is to be awarded the Windmill Trust Scholarship on Thursday 9th October at a ceremony at the Southern Cross University Next Gallery. As part of a preview to the current exhibition A Visual Guide to Australian Values an informal ceremony will be held with Trustee Prim Moss and Mic Eales' wife and daughter in attendence.
The Windmill Trust Scholarship was established in memory of Penny Meagher, artist and a former Director of the Macquarie Galleries. A scholarship of up to $5,000 is awarded annually. For more information about this grant click here
Photo: Cal Mackinnon
Mic Eales
Mic Eales applied to the Windmill Trust Scholarship to assist with the exhibition, travel and accommodation costs to Italy, where he has been asked to exhibit his work 'Too few ladders' at the next congress fo the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry in September 2009.
For more information about the range of NAVA grants and updates from grant recipients, check out NAVA's grants blog: How I Got A NAVA Grant
